Sustainability and Social Impact

As the world moves towards greater awareness of individuals' and organisations' impact on the environment and society, corporations can no longer stay in the dark regarding sustainability and social impact. 

Through our Sustainability and Social Impact course, you’ll analyse how sustainability is critical to an organisation’s operations and strategy. You’ll select relevant social impact approaches and justify your rationale for embedded change within your organisation. As an ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) advocate, you’ll develop short, medium, and long-term goals to ensure continuous improvement in your sustainability roadmap.

This course has been designed with leading partners Deloitte, Thankyou, and Humanitech so you can be assured that the course content is aligned with industry best practices and industry leaders in sustainability.

Our Sustainability and Social Impact course is ideal for: 

• Internal communications professionals, partnerships or community managers, people and culture teams, business partners, or operational team members who are looking to influence change, improvements, and decisions within their organisation.
• Emerging or existing leaders looking to understand the importance of and develop the skills to drive a sustainability plan within your organisation. You’ll learn to assess materiality and consider sustainability frameworks as you develop a plan for your organisation

Throughout this course, you will: 

• Explain why sustainability and social impact are critical to an organisation’s framework and/or strategy
• Select initiatives for inclusion in an organisation’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy and justify these choices based on the material, social and environmental impacts of the organisation
• Explain how change management principles, stakeholder management, and communications will be used for affecting and embedding change within an organisation
• Develop appropriate goals against which to measure and continuously improve an ESG strategy

During this course, you will analyse how sustainability is critical to an organisation's operations and strategy. You'll select relevant social impact approaches and justify your rationale for embedded change within your organisation. As an ESG Advocate, you'll develop short, medium, and long - term goals to ensure continuous improvement in your sustainability roadmap. 

During your final project, you will present a five-minute ESG strategy pitch. Your pitch will be targeted toward a chosen audience of key decision-makers or influence in your chosen organisation.